Device for applying hoops to casks.



J. GILMOUR.

DEVICE-POR APPLYING HOOPS T0 ASKS.

APPLICATION FILED 0051.14, 1908` 920,731 Patented May 4, 1909.

.TOI-IN GILMOUR, OF OWENSBORO, KENTUCKY.

DEVICE FOR APPLYING HOOPS TO GASKS.

Specification oi' Letters laatent.

Patented May 4, 1909.

Application led October le, 1908. Serial No. 457,660.

T o @ZZ whom it 'may concern.'

Be it lrnown that l, Jol-nv GrLMoUR, a citizen of the United States, resident of Owensboro, in the county of Daviess and State of Kentucky, have made a certain new and useful invention in levices for d slying- Hoops to Caslis: and l declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to maire and use the invention, reference beine,V4 had to the accompanying' drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l is a side view of the invention as applied. Big. 2 is a side view of the invention on a larger scale and partly broken away.

The invention has relation to a device for applying wire hoops lto casi's, and particularly to tobacco hogsheads, in a simple and expeditious manner, and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth.

ln the accompanyingl drawings, illustrating the invention, the letter a, designates the holg'shead and the hoop surrounding the same at one end portion thereof.

c, represents the invention, which consists of a pair of arms d, d, pivoted together at one end thereof at d, and having at their opposite ends clamping means for the end portions of the wire hoop, suoli means consisting-` of a base or rest e, and a cam device e, the wire end beingl passed between the rest and the raised cam device, which latter is then turned to press the wire end against such rest and securely hold it against displacement.

In the use of the invention the hoop is passed around the hogshead and the lapping end portions of the hoop runningl in opposite directions engaged and secured between the rests and cam devices of the two arms afore said. In order to tighten the hoop in place upon the hogshead a right and left screw threaded rodf, is employed, said rod having threaded engagement at opposite end portions thereof with right and left screw threaded pivotal blocks g, and g, said blocks having journal bearings at h, and 72/, with the arms d, a', intermediately of the length thereof and being thus carried thereby. Upon rotation of the screw rod by means of its handle t', the two arms d, d, may be spread apart to exert a strain in opposite directions upon the end portions of the hoop. When the requisite tigl'itening of the hoop is accomplished the device is given a one-half turn and the end portion of the hoop secured to the hogshead by staples, when the operation is completed, it only remainingl to release the cam devices e, e.

Having` thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

in a device for the purpose described, a pair of arms having pivotal connection at one end thereof, clampingmeans for the end portions of the hoop at the opposite ends of said arms, right and left screw-threaded pivotal blocks, journal bearings therefor in said arms intermediately of the length thereof, and a right and left threaded screw-lever engaging said blocks.

In testimony whereof .l aiTiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN GILMOUR.

Witnesses:

O. D. RALPH, W. F. DELL. 

